Principal Product Manager- Intelligent Planning

About the role

The Product Management team at SAS is seeking a Technical Principal Product Manager to support the SAS Intelligent Planning software offering. This role involves defining the vision and roadmap for advanced supply chain analytics and performance management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the technical product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with platform scalability, performance, and architectural constraints.
• Define and prioritize technical product requirements based on customer, prospect, and evaluator inputs, as well as technical feasibility, performance implications, and system constraints.
• Collaborate with and drive product development in R&D based on requirements management and product lifecycle, focusing on system behavior, performance, and scalability outcomes.
• Manage the product across its lifecycle, ensuring technical integrity, scalability, and maintainability of delivered capabilities.
• Define technical design patterns for planning implementations in areas such as dimensional modeling, aggregation strategies, and planning area architecture.
• Partner with customer-facing teams to validate technical feasibility and performance implications of customer commitments.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or related discipline.
• Twelve years of experience in product management, preferably in the technology industry.
• Familiarity with lifecycle of developing and deploying applications for at least one major public cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience working with distributed computation frameworks, in-memory analytics platforms, or large-scale planning systems.
• Experience defining performance SLAs, scalability benchmarks, and system constraints for enterprise applications.
• Experience with supply chain planning platforms, scenario modeling, or optimization-based systems.

Qualifications

• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional Competencies, Knowledge & Skills

• Builds partnerships by developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Customer oriented by placing a high priority on the internal or external customer’s perspective when making decisions and taking action; implements service practices that meet the customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Influences by using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes.
• Familiarity with performance tuning in analytical or planning workloads involving large datasets and complex calculations.
• Experience with packaging and deployment technologies including Containers, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
• Experience with application security and/or cloud security.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery development model.